Sri Lanka is facing an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, with leading experts warning...
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has categorised 192 persons as missing as search operations were scaled down in flood-affected areas....
European leaders have said “now is a critical moment” to ramp up support for Ukraine and put pressure on Russia...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck northern Japan on Monday. Tsunami advisories have been lifted for the Pacific coastline in northern...
A new strain of mpox, previously called monkeypox, has been detected in a person in England, say UK health officials....
A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan’s coast, triggering a tsunami alert, according to local media reports. An initial report...
Residents on both sides of Thailand’s and Cambodia’s border evacuated in droves on Monday as fresh clashes erupted, killing at...
New Zealand’s bowling spearhead Matt Henry (calf strain), seam-bowling allrounder Nathan Smith (side strain) and spin-bowling allrounder Mitchell Santner (groin...
The Level III RED landslide warnings issued to the districts of Kandy, Kegalle, Kurunegala and Matale by the landslide early...
A special District Coordinating Committee meeting, convened to review the damage caused to the agricultural sector in the Nuwara Eliya...
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London today [Monday] amid a continuing deadlock...
The President emphasised that no room will be given in the future for unauthorised constructions and that the laws relating...
The recent article by Dr Ratnasiri, in The Island, certainly provides interesting reading, to a novice, on this subject. But, the absence of a suitable plan...
These days, when all of us are getting more and more selfish, and self-centred, gratitude is something we should try to cultivate. Though it is an...
In the above captioned article, by Shobha Shukla -CNS – “Where are men in family planning…” appearing in your issue of 27th July, says ‘Family planning...
By Rex Clementine He may be making court appearances for the Catholic Church free of charge, but eminent lawyer Romesh De Silva is turning out to...
by Reemus Fernando A sportsman aspiring to reach international level has to spend between rupees 1,000.00 to 1,500.00 daily to meet his nutritional needs if he...
Mahesh Weerasinghe was re-elected as the President of the Kandy Sports Club for the third consecutive year in their 146th Annual General Meeting held recently in...
by Saveen Tharinda Former Captain, Thusitha Peiris was elected as the President of the Havelock Sports Club for 2020/21 in their Annual General Meeting held recently...
By Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and Development When I raise this question, one may wonder why I raise this question 64 years...
By Jehan Perera Even as the election campaign comes to its penultimate phase there is a dearth of hopeful and inspiring campaign themes. The nearest that...
Education’s ‘Three Es’ and the McUniversities: Continued from yesterday Keynote Address delivered by Panduka Karunanayake Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,...
Breathing new life into domestic production: By Vagisha Gunasekara The need to turn the current economic crisis that was pushed off the edge by the COVID-19...
They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going…and that is precisely the position where Sri Lanka is concerned. When the coronavirus pandemic, engulfed...
